I’m still in Catholic Worship Book II and looking at the songs they suggest for Good Friday. They are mostly chant and old hymns so, while this is set to PASSION CHORALE, the text is at least fairly recent. It is by Pamela Stotter.
The text is copyright and unavailable on the internet anywhere that I can find so all I can suggest is if you have the CWB II (or the Catholic Book of Worship III from Canada) you can sing along to my backing of the the PASSION CHORALE.
This is another setting of the Reproaches in Catholic Worship Book II, this time by Joe Wise.
This one has a refrain and verses chanted by a cantor.
My people, my people, what have I done to you;
or in what have I offended you? Answer me.
It is a GIA copyright and is available in this very inexpensive collection, “Hand in Hand”.
This is Jenny O’Brien’s setting of the Reproaches.
She has two sections of chant for cantors and two refrains for the assembly.
I’ve done a backing with guessed chords for the first refrain.
My people, what have I done to you?
Or how have I grieved you? Answer me!
Then there are three verses for a cantor followed by a Greek refrain.
This is even more approximate.
Hagios o Theos, Hagios Ischyros, Hagios Athananatos, eleison himas.
There are then five more verses for the cantors.
You then finish with the original refrain. It looks epic but I can’t find anything on the net to show off the whole piece.
Having already blogged:
320 Behold the Wood
… I can continue to another song for Good Friday in Catholic Worship Book II. This is a chant called CRUX FIDELIS, a c6th Latin sequence by Venantius Fortunatus and translated into English in the Roman Missal. the tune is Gregorian chant Mode I.
The text and chant notation is available at ICEL.
I can’t do this on BIAB so once again, from the NPM site, this is what it sounds like.
It sounds great in Latin but participation would decline somewhat:
Entrance: As a Fire is Meant for Burning (Duck) GA 881
Psalm 91 (McKenna)
Lord, it is good to give thanks to you, to give thanks to you.
Gifts: Be Thou My Vision (trans Mary E. Byrne SLANE) AOV 1/9
Communion: Song of the Body of Christ (Haas) AOV 1/27
Thanksgiving: I Have Seen the Lord (Hurd) AOV 1/98
Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness (Sands) AOV 1/131
With some misgivings I’m going back to a survey of Catholic Worship Book II, which will mean lots of music in a style to which I am not accustomed.
I had got up to the songs for Good Friday and have already blogged:
318 At the Cross Her Vigil Keeping
319 in CWB II is the chant from The Roman Missal and a BIAB backing won’t help with learning it, so I’m not doing one … also BIAB is lousy at chant.
It is available at the ICEL site – the one in CWB II is the middle chant.
It sounds like this (from the NPM site).
This is the last of the slightly more obscure Marty Haugen songs in my copy of Gather Comprehensive that I hadn’t blogged when looking at other sources.
This another anointing song that would also fit as a recessional or for funerals.
The tune is simple in the refrain and goes into interesting places in the verses for variety. I’ve seen it brought down from D to C, which is probably wise for groaners like me who won’t hit the long D’s in the verse.
The text is in the preview at GIA where the sheet music can be purchased.
This is another Marty Haugen song that is meant as a call and response between a cantor and the assembly in the vesres, but that I’m sure would work just as well sung through by everyone.
It has an obvious use for anointing but the matter in the verses could lend themselves to many liturgies. The refrain can be sung as a round in three parts if you are up for it.
The text in the sample at GIA , where the sheet music can be purchased for download.
This is Marty Haugen’s setting of the Magnificat that is in Gather Comprehensive.
It is another call and response between an assembly and a cantor that could also be sung through just by the assembly.
The sheet music is at GIA where the text is in their preview.
I’m not sure it is meant to go quite at this speed but it does emphasise the rejoicing.
I’m up to the last four Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive that I haven’t covered elsewhere.
I love this tune Marty Haugen wrote to set his adaptation of a text by St Augustine. It is a song of comfort in trial, but could be applied to anointing and reconciliation as well.
It is meant to be call and response between a cantor and assembly in the verses but the people could sing it all without trouble.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the text is in their preview.
